linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:45:04 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

On Friday, 24 of October 2008, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008 05:10:29 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's been two weeks, so it's time to close the merge window. A 2.6.28-rc1
> > is out there, and it's hopefully all good.
> 
> It seems if you have a broken asm/ symlink in include/ (which happened as a 
> result of the x86 header moves, for me) the kernel won't try to update it 
> appropriately, and this breaks "make prepare".
> 
> $ make    ARCH=x86_64 prepare                                                                                                   
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h                                                                                                                            
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h                                                                                                                         
>   GEN     include/asm/asm-offsets.h                                                                                                                          
> /bin/sh: include/asm/asm-offsets.h: No such file or directory                                                                                                
> make[1]: *** [include/asm/asm-offsets.h] Error 1                                                                                                             
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
> 
> rm -f include/asm fixes it
> 
> This was just from taking a 2.6.27 tree, git clean -d -f, git pull, make 
> oldconfig. Might be a nice thing to fix?

Hm, I didn't have any problems with compiling .28-rc1 on x86_64.

[Confused.]

Rafael
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